“There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your heart's desire. The other is getting it.”

“To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.”

“My gods or your gods, who know which are stronger?' That's why we honor them all - just in case. There are more cultures even than Gods in the Eight Worlds, and among them you'll find people who are willing to kill you, or each other, over any difference in belief or lifestyle or physical appearance you can imagine - and some you can't. They all think they're right. There's no Truth, Tammis, only differences of opinion.”

“Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.”

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.”

“He is afraid, as suddenly he knows that he was afraid all along, that if he felt her body so close to him he would never let her go.”

“Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.”